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University of Illinois uses a Cluster for Immersive VR

Posted by chrisd on from the since-I'm-remodeling-my-basement-anyhow dept.

It seems the folks down at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a 6-sided CAVE like system called ALICE. But, instead of running it off of a SGI Onyx, they've developed a distributed environment for visualization called Syzygy. Slap a few computers together and make your own holodeck!

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  1. Ever been to the zoo?... by digitalunity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    See the signs where it says:
    'Don't feed the animals'?
    It should read:
    'Don't feed the trolls!'

    --
    You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
  2. Emersive AI VR by Mentifex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aw, gee, I'm getting tired of telling a disputacious and dismissive SlashDot world about the grand happenings in subversive Artificial Intelligence. Maybe they'll believe it when they emerse -- no, wait a holominute, that word is incorrect -- immerse themselves in virtual reality (VR) amid a known or unknown population of artificially intelligent Virtual Entities.

    Then all these genius SlashDotters will wake up and schmell the Kofi, when they virt-realize that Visual Basic Mind.VB and Java-based Mind.Java are for real and are bearing down on their supercilious posteriors with ineluctable, inescapable Technological Singularity.

    Now, don't phreak out, but the next time your holodeck emerses you from ordinary reality into virtual reality, take a look around you at some of the co-resident weirdos that you may meet. Happy holodecking!